Journal article
Identification of Iowa Live Births in the Agricultural Health Study
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, Vol.65(3), pp.154-162
07/30/2010
DOI: 10.1080/19338241003730903
PMCID: PMC2936500
PMID: 20705576
Abstract
In the Agricultural Health Study, information on participant live births was largely provided by female partners of male private applicators. At the Iowa site, such information was available for 13,599 (42.9%) of 31,707 applicators. To improve identification of live births among Iowa participants, we used a probabilistic and deterministic approach to link available demographic data from 31,707 households and information on live births from 13,599 households with 1,014,916 Iowa birth certificates. Record linkage identified 16,611 (93.7%) of 17,719 reported live births and 17,883 additional live births, most (14,411 or 80.6%) not reported due to nonresponse by female partners. This record linkage produced an expanded cohort of live-born children among Iowa participants, which will facilitate improved study of the effects of agricultural exposures, including pesticides, on selected birth outcomes and childhood disease.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Identification of Iowa Live Births in the Agricultural Health Study
- Creators
- Paul A Romitti - Department of Epidemiology at the College of Public Health , The University of IowaShinobu Watanabe-Galloway - Department of Epidemiology at the College of Public Health , The University of Nebraska Medical CenterWilliam T Budelier - Department of Epidemiology at the College of Public Health , The University of IowaCharles F Lynch - Department of Epidemiology at the College of Public Health , The University of IowaSoman Puzhankara - Department of Epidemiology at the College of Public Health , The University of IowaDonna Wong-Gibbons - Department of Epidemiology at the College of Public Health , The University of IowaJane A Hoppin - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human ServicesMichael C. R Alavanja - Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, Vol.65(3), pp.154-162
- DOI
- 10.1080/19338241003730903
- PMID
- 20705576
- PMCID
- PMC2936500
- NLM abbreviation
- Arch Environ Occup Health
- ISSN
- 1933-8244
- eISSN
- 2154-4700
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/30/2010
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Biostatistics
- Record Identifier
- 9983996190802771
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